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US-China commitment encouraging, but collective solution for climate crisis is needed
The joint US-China statement on new domestic policy commitments and a vision for a global climate change deal underscores the importance the world's two largest emitters place on solving the climate crisis, says Oxfam, but collective action is needed.
South Africa commits to cap emissions through to 2030; climate finance is key
South Africa has today tabled its climate action plan for Paris, committing to put a lid on rising emissions through to 2030. How low they are able to plateau will depend on international support meaning so climate finance will be key to unlock greater ambition, says Oxfam.
EU could triple inputs to Green Climate Fund by using Emission Trading Scheme revenues
EU environment ministers again acknowledged the importance of financial support for climate action in poor and vulnerable countries in the Paris climate agreement, but they must invest in the Green Climate Fund, says Oxfam.
Bombing of Yemen port is a condemnable attack on a civilian target
The coalition airstrikes of Hodeidah's port is yet another example of an attack on a civilian target, which Oxfam utterly condemns, says Oxfam's Yemen country director, Philippe Clerc.
Oxfam applauds Muslim leaders' climate change call to action
In response to today's publication of the Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change at the International Islamic Climate Change Symposium in Istanbul, Lies Craeynest, Food and Climate Just
Lack of funding leads to World Food Program cuts for Syrian refugees - a dangerous development, says Oxfam
A lack of funding has led the World Food Programme to significantly reduce food vouchers for refugees living outside of camps in Jordan in August, while maintaining the same levels of assistance for camp residents.
Japan misses the boat on emissions reduction targets
In response to yesterday's adoption of Japan's Intended N
Rich countries provide a poor outcome at Addis Financing for Development Conference: Oxfam
Unresolved rigged tax rules and privatized development are the major drawbacks of the UN Financing for Development Conference outcome, says Oxfam.
European Commission fails to make pollution pricing work for the climate
The European Commission today published – as part of its "summer package" – a legislative proposal to reform the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). The Commission has failed to use this key opportunity to help address a key stumbling block in the climate negotiations: the provision of predictable and additional climate finance.
Reaction to the launch of the joint IMF- World Bank initiative to support developing countries in strengthening tax systems
Oxfam welcomes the World Bank and IMF's recognition of the powerful and catalyzing impact of fairer tax systems in reducing poverty, inequality and promoting growth. But the two institutions need to provide more clarity on their proposal.


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Full Steam Ahead for Local Sugar Makers
ORLEANS COUNTY – The sugaring season is off to an early start this year with the unseasonably warm weather. The boiling is going strong, but how the season will turn out is a mystery, completely dependent on Mother Nature. Temperatures are forecasted to be well into the 50s in the days ahead, and this concerns producers."We're at the mercy of the weather but off to a good start," said Carolyn Collins.Collins, along with her husband Howard (Tom) Collins, operates a sugar bush in Newport Center. Their son Shaye Collins also has a sugar bush and a sugar house, and together they have 11,000 taps.Sugaring in the Collins family dates back to the 1800s, Carolyn Collins said in an interview Tuesday. She recalls as a child riding along on the gathering tank behind the horses while sugaring the old fashion way with buckets. Now the Collins family has a sophisticated modern method of sugaring that includes tubing, a vacuum, and reverse osmosis.The Collins family tapped maples in February and hopes the warm weather doesn't create a short season. Once the buds appear on the trees, that's it, Carolyn said. Jacques Couture, of Couture's Maple Shop in Westfield, said he can offer more comments about the season later on. The Couture's are gearing up for the Open House Weekend March 24 and 25, a long-time event in which people from all over tour local sugar houses, view tubing and possibly buckets, and watch as the sap is turned into liquid gold Shaye Collins will also open his doors for the event. His sugar house is located on Wright Road, off the Collins Mill Road in Newport Center.Butch Currier of Glover built a sugar house in 1992 and began sugaring in 1993. His business is called Currier Family Sugar Shack. Currently he has 3,200 taps. This year is the second year he started boiling in February. Last year he began boiling in mid-March but the season proved to be the best he'd ever had. "It seemed like it was never going to end."Currier, like others, says the season is off to a good start but he is concerned with the forecast. Nighttime temperatures are not predicted to go below 32 degrees. Sugar producers need warmer days with below freezing temperatures at night, he explained. "It's all dependent on the weather."Although Currier is not participating in the open house weekend, he regularly participates in public outreach. A group of school children are planning a field trip to his sugar house today and he always donates syrup to the school. "I don't want the kids growing up on Aunt Jemima," he said.While many producers are concerned about the forecast, many others warn that the real threat to the industry is the Asian long horned beetle. This non-native pest easily moves around the region on infested firewood and can kill mature maple trees, explained Caitlin Cusack with the University of Vermont Extension Service. An infestation of these pests was discovered in Worcester, MA, area in 2008. It is the largest outbreak so far in the United States, Cusack said.Once an infestation occurs, the main method for stopping the Asian long horned beetle's spread is to cut down all the infested and host trees within a 1.5 mile radius of the infested tree, she said. "Early detection is the key to keeping Vermont's forests free of the Asian long horned beetle and other exotic pests," says Cusack. "Because people don't realize that moving firewood can spread this tree-killing beetle, more of these infestations may be discovered in other cities and towns across New England," added Leigh Greenwood with The Nature Conservancy.If you think you may have an Asian long horned beetle, report it at http://www.vtinvasives.org/tree-pests/report-it.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are closing sharply lower after House Republicans called off a vote on tax rates.
That left federal budget talks in disarray 10 days before sweeping tax increases and government spending cuts are set to take effect.
The Dow Jones industrial average lost 120 points to close at 13,191 Friday. It had been down as much as 189.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 13 points to 1,430. The Nasdaq composite index fell 29 to 3,021.
The House bill would have raised taxes on Americans making at least $1 million per year and locked in decade-old tax cuts for Americans making less.
Two stocks fell for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was 4.7 billion shares, higher than the recent average.


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Wikipedia has been one of the success stories of the internet, growing rapidly to become the de facto reference site for many people.
There are more than 4.4m pages in the English language edition alone, and it is still growing at the rate of 771 new pages every day.
How can its impact benefit digital marketers?
While everyone has heard of, and probably uses, Wikipedia, what fewer understand is the impact it has on search results.
Wikipedia ranks highly in responses to many search queries due to the high degree of trust the search engines have in its content, the breadth of information it contains and the global, multi-language scope of the site.
Our own SEO Ranking Factors Rank Correlation study shows this clearly. Typically Wikipedia ranks second in results for a large number of keywords, for example behind the respective brand or the specific URL for the search term itself.
However, if there is no significant brand that would match the search query, Wikipedia often ranks first. This is particularly true of informational keywords (such as definitions) that are unconnected to brands.
Looking at this graph from google.co.uk illustrates the correlation between Wikipedia URLs and search results:
So how can brands benefit from the correlation between Wikipedia and high search results? I'd say there are four key ways:
Keep pages up to dateWikipedia aims to be an independent information source, so over developed pages about your company or products will be frowned upon by the community and potentially removed. However you should ensure that there are up to date, factual pages to ensure that you rank highly in search results.
This is particularly true if you want to appear towards the top of results for informational keywords – make sure you are providing unbiased information that positions you as an expert.
Maximise your Google Knowledge Graph informationGoogle's Knowledge Graph feature aims to enhance search results by providing immediate information on the results page. Normally on the right hand side, it gives either basic details and images/maps on a topic or company, or direct answers to very specific queries, such as What is the population of London?, without a user needing to click on other results.
Wikipedia is one of the major sources of this information – rather than your corporate website. So make sure information on your revenues, senior management, staff and products is always up to date on Wikipedia.
- Use photos within WikipediaKnowledge Graph also trawls Wikipedia for images to accompany results. Therefore make sure you include up to date images (such as your logo) on the site if you want to provide the latest information to browsers when they are searching.
Increase trust in your brandAs it has been vetted by the Wikipedia community, information about brands on the site is considered highly trustworthy and independent by consumers. It provides neutral, fact-based content, along with multiple links to specific information which encourage people to find out more.
Not having a Wikipedia page can therefore reduce trust in your brand.
Our Ranking Factors survey shows that while Google favours quality, substance, and ultimately, relevance in ordering its search results it always takes into account secondary factors such as Wikipedia.
The information on the site is interwoven into Knowledge Graph results, meaning it could be the first thing that a prospective customer sees about your company or brand. Therefore you need to ensure you have built the right presence on Wikipedia and are keeping it up to date if you want to benefit from its undoubted power when it comes to search.
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Marcus makes some strong points about the importance of Wikipedia to a brand's search engine visibility.
However, brand managers need to beware of being over-active in creating, editing or expanding the content of any article where they have a vested interest.
Experienced Wikipedians take conflicts of interest very seriously and there have been numerous examples of companies whose online reputation has suffered through adverse publicity regarding their attempts to "fix" Wikipedia entries about themselves or their clients.
The UK's Chartered Institute of Public Relations has published guidelines on Wikipedia engagement which will help companies work ethically with the Wikipedia community, stressing that company employees should avoid editing articles about the organisation (or its clients). These guidelines could prove invaluable to SEO practitioners and others too.
No doubt that wikpedia, and being cited on it, are now important for general ranking in google. However, although wikipedia is great, of itself, it tends ti favours brands and known players in markets, making it harder to get listed on wikipedia. A good example I have seen is law firms in London. My firm is small yet well known and very active online, but wikipedia only mentions the bigger firms, listed in other publications like the Legal 500, which of themselves favour the bigger firms. Is this what the average searcher wants when they search for a law firm ? Most searchers do not want a top 500 law firm, they want a local firm, cost effective, which they can trust. Unfortunately, becoming increasingly chicken and egg.
I'm guessing it's a fine line between creating a solid Wikipedia page vs erring toward 'marketing' your brand. That said, I would imagine it's not a bad idea to get someone external to your company to create your Wikipedia page for you, with strict instruction to not use any kind of creative language that could possibly be seen as marketing on your behalf.
Our company does not currently have a Wiki page, but it's given me food for thought, and ensuring we do this well is going to be very important to our credibility online.
Some good points, Marcus! Wikipedia is definitely a place to be at - one of my client is featured on Wikipedia's page and every month this brings a good amount of referral traffic. However, as you said you need to take care of it, not just leave it to work for you.
Great post you have shared & nice topic you have covered in your post. Thanks for sharing it.
Great article, there are some very strong points here. I think Wikipedia generally favours the larger organisations who have extensive business history. However, if small businesses can get listed too, then it will definitely be worthwhile.
Marcus- Fantastic article! We included it in our Monthly Resource Roundup: http://www.aseohosting.com/blog/2014/01/seo-content-marketing-and-social-media-the-best-of-december-2013/
ikipedia is definitely a place to be at - one of my client is featured on Wikipedia's page and every month this brings a good amount of referral traffic. However, as you said you need to take care of it, not just leave it to work for you.


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A galette is a savory buckwheat crêpe, a type of pancake from Brittany. Unlike the crêpe, the galette is cooked on one side only. It is frequently garnished with meat, fish, cheese, salad or similar ingredients. One of the most popular varieties is a galette covered with grated gruyère cheese, a slice of ham and an egg, cooked on the galette. In France, this is known as a galette complète. A hot sausage wrapped in a galette (a galette-saucisse) and eaten like a hot dog is also becoming more and more popular. There is also an open-faced pie called a galette. See our Cake Glossary.
A thin wafer cookie that has a slightly sweet flavor. Gaufrettes are baked on a special iron, similar to a waffle iron. Some are rectangular and formed into sandwiches, some are fan-shaped, and others are shaped into cones for ice cream cone. Gaufrettes are popular garnishes for ice cream or mousse desserts.
A flat, rimless metal pan used for cooking by dry heat. Griddles are often used to cook foods such as bacon, eggs, pancakes and hamburger patties.
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INJERA or ENJERA
Injera is a pancake-like bread made out of teff flour. It is traditionally eaten in Ethiopia, Somalia (where it is also called lahoh) and Eritrea. The flour is mixed with water and allowed to ferment for a few days. It is then ready to fry into large flat pancakes. A variety of stews, and sometimes salad, are placed upon the injera for serving. Using one's right hand, small pieces of injera are torn and used to grasp the stews and salads for eating. Injera is thus both food and plate at the same time.
JOHNNYCAKE or JONNYCAKE
Not a pancake but cornmeal bread (cornbread), usually shaped into a flat cake and baked or fried on a griddle. Believed to be taught to the Pilgrims by the Native Americans, it became a staple in New England and the upper Midwest. Today, however, the Johnnycake is largely known in the South. It has many different regional names, including ashcake, batter bread; battercake, corn cake, corn pone, hoecake, journey cake, pone and Shawnee cake.
KOUIGN AMANN or KOUIGN AMAN
Kouign amann is a Breton cake. It is a galette, a kind of crêpe made with brioche dough, butter and sugar. The name derives from the Breton words for cake, kouign, and butter, amann. Kouign amann is a specialty of the village of Douarnenez in Finistère, where it originated in 1865. Read our extensive explanation of kouign amann.
A Norwegian pancake made in a decorative, two-sided press (the plates look like a circular, shallow waffle iron plates with an elaborate design instead of the waffle squares). The finished pancake is molded into a tube shape, allowed to harden, then eaten plain or filled with whipped cream or other fillings, like a cannoli. Krumkake is a variation of the Italian pizzelle.
Lefse (pronounced lef-sa) is a traditional soft Scandinavian flatbread made out of potato, milk and flour, and cooked on a griddle. There are significant regional variations in the way lefse is made and eaten, but it generally resembles a tortilla. In the middle part of Norway, a variation called tynnlefse (thin lefse) is made, which is rolled up with butter, sugar and cinnamon, and eaten as a cake. Tjukklefse or tykklefse (thick lefse) is thicker and, again, often served over coffee as a cake. Potetlefse (potato lefse) is often used in place of a hot dog bun and can be used to roll up sausages. This delight is also known as pølse med lompe in Norway, lompe being the potato lefse.
The Liège waffle is the second major type of waffle eaten in Belgium—although it lays claim to being the "original waffle" with a 600-year history. It was invented by the chef of the prince-bishop of Liège, a city in eastern Belgium. While the Brussels waffle (which Americans know as the Belgian waffle) is a crisp dessert waffle, served with a sweet topping and eaten with a knife and fork, the Liège waffle is a smaller, handheld snack food in the manner of a donut. It has a yeast dough and is golden-yellow, softer and more dense in texture than the Brussels waffle, with a caramelized sugar coating from the last-minute addition of pearl sugar that provides a lightly sweet, distinctive flavor. It also has irregular edges, as opposed to the Brussels waffle, which is perfectly rectangular or square with even sides. The Liège waffle is sold by street vendors and at bake shops all over Belgium.
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A North Vancouver couple who sued their realtor for not disclosing geotechnical risks at their property neighbouring the site of a fatal landslide has had their lawsuit dismissed in B.C. Supreme Court.
Martyn and Tammy Louise Shaw's home at 2217 Berkley Ave. wasn't damaged in the 2005 landslide that killed one person and destroyed two houses. Still, they say the slide hurt their home's resale value, and they have been unable to sell the property at a price comparable to those seen outside the Berkley Escarpment area.
Justice Robert Sewell on Wednesday dismissed the case against realtor John McKilligan and Care Realty Ltd., writing that two decades-old reports on the area's landslide risk were "largely forgotten" by the time of the 2005 slide.
"I am unable to find that Mr. McKilligan failed to meet the standard of care required of him by failing to make enquiries about the property at the offices of the District of North Vancouver," Sewell wrote.
The Shaws' property, which they purchased in 2001, was the site of a landslide in 1979. Two reports commissioned by the district in response to that event revealed a risk of further landslides, according to court documents. However, those reports were stored in the District of North Vancouver's engineering department library and were not posted publicly. When Martyn Shaw visited the district's offices in 2004 to obtain permits for constructing a garage, he was told there was nothing on file concerning his property.
"There is simply no evidence that it was local knowledge in 2001 that there was a landslide hazard on the Escarpment," Sewell wrote. "I am satisfied on the evidence presented in this case that the reports only became generally known after the 2005 landslide."
The Shaws' original lawsuit also named the district, the 1979 owner of the home, and the couple they purchased it from, as well as their realtor, but those defendants were dropped.
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By Bernard Vaughan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a former translator for the U.S. Army in Iraq to 25 years in prison for trying to sell anti-aircraft missiles and other military weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Alwar Pouryan, a U.S. citizen of Iranian Kurdish descent, was one of seven men indicted in 2011 following an undercover investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration into drug trafficking in West Africa.
In meetings in Africa, Ukraine and Romania starting in late 2010, Pouryan and a co-defendant arranged to provide $25 million worth of weapons, ammunition and training to confidential DEA sources posing as Taliban representatives. The DEA sources said they would pay for the weapons with heroin proceeds, according to prosecutors.
In April, U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald ruled without a jury that Pouryan, 39, was guilty of one count of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and one count of conspiracy to acquire and transfer anti-aircraft missiles.
To endanger "citizens of the country that gave him refuge is heinous," Buchwald said in a Manhattan courtroom before sentencing Pouryan on Wednesday .
Born in a war-torn Kurdish area of Iran, Pouryan came to the United States as a refugee in 1997. He later served as a translator in Iraq for U.S. forces before entering a murky underground of international arms trading.
During his trial, his lawyer argued that Pouryan had in fact tried to warn U.S. officials about the Taliban arms deal.
Colonel Erik Gunhus, the former public affairs officer for General David Petraeus, testified at Pouryan's trial that he received the tip from Pouryan shortly after Pouryan met with the DEA sources. He said he did not act on it because it "wasn't something that I needed to act on or pass forward."
In a long, unscripted statement Wednesday, Pouryan said he was wrongly convicted and challenged Buchwald to say "which part of my story was not true." He also suggested there was more evidence that could prove his innocence.
"I give my life for this country, I serve this country," said Pouryan, who limped into the courtroom with a cane. "I was begging everybody to help me save American lives."
Buchwald told Pouryan his testimony at trial was "not credible."
"The trial is over, there is a verdict, and now it's sentencing time," Buchwald said.
Pouryan's co-defendant, Oded Orbach, is scheduled to be sentenced on November 1.
"Alwar Pouryan was an American who was all too willing to do business with the Taliban - agreeing to provide that narco-terrorist organization with lethal, military-grade weapons that would have put countless innocent lives at risk," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.
The case is USA v. Saade et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 11-cr-00111.
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For Jonathan Cordova, the spiral into opiate addiction began in high school, when he started taking Percocet pills he got from friends to relieve the pain of sports injuries.
Within a year, he had dropped out of high school and lost a baseball scholarship. By 21, he was experimenting with cocaine and methamphetamine, and started snorting the popular painkiller OxyContin.
"It gives you a feeling of euphoria, just like you're floating, nothing else really matters," says Cordova, now 26. "It just took everything away.
"We started doing them every day, and that's all that mattered. And then we got to where if you didn't take them, you would get sick."
Cordova is working to kick his addiction to painkillers, called opioids for their opium-like qualities. But thousands of other Oregonians remain hooked on the medications — many of them prescribed by their health care providers.
Dr. Jim Shames, Jackson County's top health official, says more than 20 million painkillers are prescribed in the county every year.
Out of 141 accidental drug overdose deaths from 2004 to 2011, about 80 percent involved a prescribed opiate, he says.
Overdose deaths from heroin — which some addicts turn to when they can no longer get or afford prescribed pain medications — have jumped from 18 in that eight-year span to seven in 2012 alone, he says. Two, in Ashland, came within 24 hours of each other.
"From a public health perspective, we have way too many of our citizens who are dying of overdose deaths," Shames says.
The solution? Start with the source of the pills, he says.
"We have way too many pills; 20-plus-million painkillers prescribed in Jackson County in one year, I mean that's absurd," he says. "So the source is coming from prescribers — people who have the ability to write prescriptions. That is the source of the pills. There's just no doubt about it."
For the past two years, Shames, medical director of Jackson County Health and Human Services, has been working with more than 70 local health care providers to educate doctors and others on the dangers of overprescribing painkillers. They formed the Opiate Prescribers Group, which in May unveiled new guidelines for prescribing painkillers and recognizing the danger signs of addiction.
"What we're trying to do is get physicians and other prescribers to understand that you can do a risk assessment on somebody," Shames says.
Oregon in 2010-11 had the highest rate of prescription-drug abuse in the country at 6.4 percent, compared to 4.6 percent nationwide, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
"The fact that Oregon is said to be No. 1 in the inappropriate, illicit use of opioids implies that we must be No. 1 in the inappropriate prescribing of opioids," Shames says.
"Otherwise we wouldn't have so many pills out there being abused. You know if we gave just the right amount to just the right people at just the right dose, they'd be done. So, yes, I think there's a lot we all have to learn about this."
In January, longtime Ashland residents David and Julia Pinsky lost their 25-year-old son, Max, to heroin overdose. It was the third such overdose in Ashland in six weeks, a rate never before seen in the town of 20,200.
Max had been exposed to pain pills after injuries from car accidents, his mother says. He struggled with some addiction problems that she and his father were aware of, but during the last year of his life, his condition quickly deteriorated.
"It was a surprise as to the severity of it. The rapid decline was shocking," Pinsky says.
Max's addiction led to run-ins with the law, which made him increasingly paranoid and nervous about serving time in prison, Pinsky says. Because of the drugs, he had a lot of trouble with decision-making, she says.
"He had driving offenses and then possession charges. It doesn't help the person who is already unstable. Police were certainly asking him to inform. People need to be treated as though they need to be helped, and not given a carrot to inform," Pinsky says.
Pinsky says Max came home one day after being beaten by fellow users who thought he was informing just because he had been dropped off by a police officer.
"These people are not mentally well," she says. "Max hit a really rough patch with mental health. A year before that he was much better. This last year, he just didn't have the strength."
State Sen. Alan Bates, a Medford physician, believes opiate addiction stems more from mental health issues such as those with which Max struggled.
"Thirty years ago, we were told we were prescribing too many narcotics, then 10 years ago, we were told we weren't prescribing enough. Now 10 years later, we're prescribing too much," he says.
"Why do people take narcotics in the first place? I firmly believe it's a social phenomenon born out of poverty and hopelessness."
Bates, who is co-chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Services, hopes to allocate more money in the state budget this legislative session for mental health services and drug and alcohol treatment programs such as Jackson County's OnTrack Inc., an addiction and recovery center.
Dr. Jason Kuhl, clinical medical director at Providence Medford Medical Center, agrees with Shames that the overprescribing of opiates is the reason so many residents are hooked on pain pills.
"If we had 20.4 million doses of narcotics prescribed, that is indicative of a society dependent or addicted to these medications," Kuhl says.
Doctors made assumptions that studies on acute, or short-term pain — from surgery, broken bones, dental work, burns, cuts, labor and childbirth — were the same for chronic pain, which includes headache, cancer, arthritis, nerve damage and lower back pain, Shames says.
"Those are really different phenomena. People get really addicted. We were told maybe they didn't," he says.
Shames says pharmaceutical companies, aware that chronic diseases pay better than acute or short-term conditions, misled physicians.
"That's why they're not making many antibiotics, but chronic pain? My gosh, you might take a drug for the rest of your life? Now that's going to make a lot of money," he says.
Purdue Pharma, the company that manufactures the popular painkiller OxyContin, downplayed some of the risks associated with the painkiller and adversely influenced licensing boards, Shames says.
In May 2007, Purdue Pharma executives pleaded guilty to misleading the public about OxyContin's risk of addiction. The company was ordered to pay $634.5 million in fines — one of the largest financial penalties ever imposed on a drug company — for claiming that because the drug was time-released, it was less addictive and less subject to abuse than other pain medications, according to the Los Angeles Times.
"They've been deep into it," Shames says. "At some point physicians were influenced to prescribe, and the public was influenced to look for a pill that was going to cure their ills."
Opiates are the ultimate painkillers because they don't just cure physical pain — they cure any pain, even emotional pain from trauma, Shames says. But while they're effective for short-term, acute pain, there's insufficient evidence to support their use for chronic, noncancer pain, officials say.
"Opiate use at best is only going to make a 50 percent reduction in chronic pain," Kuhl says.
The drugs' tendencies toward building tolerance and addiction can do more harm than good, Shames says.
"What's increasingly clear is that if we're going to get prescribers to change their behavior around chronic — how they deal with chronic pain — their patients need to have a different understanding. The public at large needs to have a different understanding," Shames says. "So really it becomes a community issue.
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Health officials say some patients who get hooked on pain pills but can no longer get or afford them turn to heroin for relief.
"Meth has actually fallen off, given how hard it is to manufacture, but heroin has been making a comeback," Kuhl says.
According to Cordova, when his OxyContin addiction was costing him between $300 and $400 a day, he started stealing from friends and family. The low cost of heroin for a better high was what led him deeper into addiction, he says.
"I was at a friend's house, and there was all these guys doing heroin, and they said it was the same feeling but better for a quarter of the price," Cordova says. "I was spending half the money and getting twice the amount of drugs. I started smoking it, and that lasted for a year, then I started shooting it."
Shames admits the downside of cutting back on opiate prescriptions is that it can lead to an increase in heroin use among those already addicted.
"At least that is what the data from here, Multnomah County and the rest of the country seems to imply," Shames says. "In the data you can see 18 deaths over eight years from heroin, and last year alone we had seven."
But as prescribers better understand the difference in treatment for acute and chronic pain and the correlation between overprescribing and opiate addiction, the hope is fewer people will become addicted in the first place.
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Rita Sullivan, executive director of OnTrack Inc., regularly attends OPG's monthly meetings and says this is a key way treatment specialists, mental health professionals and doctors are coming together to try to solve the problem.
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"I have a couple of little boys and I just knew it was time. I had to make a huge decision," Cordova says.
A graduate of OnTrack's DADS program, Cordova says he has been clean for six months.
"It will take time. I have to prove myself," he says. "I'm really grateful I get to be clean and still be here."
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Saturday's 24-7 victory over Kentucky extended Florida's winning streak against the Wildcats to 27 games.
Saturday's 24-7 victory over Kentucky extended Florida's winning streak against the Wildcats to 27 games.
It also gave the Gators their first road win of the season and brought their SEC record to 2-0.
"Anytime you go on the road in our conference and win, it's great," Muschamp said on his Sunday television show. "I was really proud of our football team. We had a very mentally draining week as far as some of the things we had to deal with, but our guys pulled together like they always do."
UF moved up two spots to No. 18 in the latest Associated Press college football poll while remaining No. 19 in the USA Today Coaches' Poll.
Muschamp praised the performance of quarterback Tyler Murphy, who made his first career start. He completed 15-of-18 pass attempts for 156 yards and threw a nine-yard touchdown to Trey Burton, which Muschamp called the offensive play of the game.
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Vernon Hargreaves III's end-zone interception in the third quarter was the defensive play of the game, Muschamp said. The true freshman cornerback now has three picks in four games.
Florida's other two starting corners — juniors Loucheiz Purifoy (0) and Marcus Roberson (3) — have three combined for their careers.
"Vernon's got really good ball skills down the field," Muschamp said. "He always has his eyes in the right spots. The receiver worked himself in phase with Vernon, which means he can press him.
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UF returns home Saturday to host Arkansas at 7 p.m. on ESPN2. It will be the first night game in The Swamp since 2011 against Florida State. The Razorbacks started the year 3-0, but are coming off back-to-back losses to Rutgers and Texas A&M.
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Seventeen-year-old Hannah Snyder was facing a critical situation. Lying at the bottom of a 40-foot embankment, upside down in her vehicle, with broken bones and countless cuts and bruises, she tried to recall what just happened.
Dazed, but still coherent, she recalled an out of control vehicle swerving into her lane. Trying to avoid a head-on collision, she lost control of her car, which rolled twice before tumbling down the steep hillside. Now, this high school senior had to act to save her life.
She eventually managed to free herself from the wreckage, but knew something was wrong with her back. "It just didn't feel right and I knew in my mind it was broken," explained Hannah. "But I knew I had to get back up to the road to get help to have any chance of getting out of there." She slowly crawled up the embankment and was able to wave down a passing car. The vehicle that caused the crash didn't stop.
Hannah was immediately life-flighted to a local hospital where doctors evaluated her condition. An x-ray revealed that part of her spine had been badly crushed. Unable to provide the proper treatment, doctors rushed her to UPMC.
Neurosurgeons at UPMC confirmed that Hannah had a severe lumbar (lower spine) burst fracture, or a crushing of the bones in the spine from all directions. These bony fragments can spread into surrounding tissues or into the spinal canal, which can cause severe neurological damage and partial or complete paralysis.
Doctors needed to operate quickly in order to remove the fractured pieces of Hannah's spine before they caused additional and permanent damage. Once she was stabilized, she was prepared for surgery.
Using minimally invasive surgery, UPMC neurosurgeons removed the damaged areas of Hannah's spine and replaced the section with an expandable cage of autograft bone. Rods and screws were then placed to fortify the structure and alignment of the spine.
After the five-hour surgery was complete, Hannah immediately felt relief. "As soon as I woke up I was in less pain than I was in before," she said. "And as soon as I learned that I wasn't going to have any permanent damage, I couldn't have been happier."
Hannah was able to return home just a few days following her surgery, and was quickly able to walk on her own. After completing a physical therapy program, she was back to doing everything she had done prior to the car crash and was able to finish high school without any further complications.
Now age 20, she is enrolled in a graphic design program and is thankful that she was able to come away from a terrible accident without any major problems. "After learning about what happened in the crash and the injury to my spine, I can't believe that I am here right now," says Hannah. "I can do anything I could do before the crash, and I have my doctors to thank for that."
Our patient stories profile a number of patients who have had minimally invasive brain surgery at UPMC. Although everyone's care experience is unique, we hope that sharing these stories will help other prospective patients and their families better understand these procedures and their potential benefits.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Siemens Chief Executive Peter Loescher plans a probably doomed fight for his job at Wednesday's supervisory board meeting, a German newspaper said, after the German industrial group said at the weekend it would sack him.
Pressure had been mounting on Loescher after he repeatedly misjudged demand development in the group's main markets, and last week appeared to provide the final straw when Siemens scrapped its 2014 profit margin targets.
Citing company sources, Sueddeutsche Zeitung said on Monday that Loescher was only willing to resign if Chairman Gerhard Cromme, who hired him six years ago, also quit.
Otherwise, Loescher hoped to pull together the necessary two-thirds majority to prevent being fired, though boardroom sources told the paper he had no hope of succeeding.
Shares in Siemens, Germany's No. 2 company by market value and a bellwether of Europe's biggest economy, rose as much as 2.3 percent in early trade on Monday and were 0.9 percent higher at 80.37 euros by 0804 GMT.
Sources have said finance chief Joe Kaeser, who has spent his entire career at Siemens, was the most likely candidate to replace Loescher, which analysts welcomed.
"Kaeser's experience and detailed knowledge of the company make him suitable to succeed Loescher, and we appreciate the breadth of his qualification and experiences," Commerzbank analyst Ingo-Martin Schachel said.
Others said they expected that Kaeser would quickly tighten the reins on costs and sell more non-core businesses, such as the units making rail technology or healthcare software.
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"Using 3-D scans promises greater accuracy due to more consistent sampling over the entire tumor," said lead author, Gerald L. LeCarpentier, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Radiology at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. "Our study shows that 3-D power Doppler ultrasound may be useful in the evaluation of some breast masses."
Malignant breast masses often exhibit increased blood flow compared to normal tissue or benign masses. Using 3-D power Doppler ultrasound, radiologists are able to detect vessels with higher flow speeds, which likely indicate cancer.
For the study, Dr. LeCarpentier and colleagues studied 78 women between the ages of 26 and 70 who where scheduled for biopsy of a suspicious breast mass. Each of the women underwent a 3-D Doppler ultrasound exam followed by core or excisional biopsy of the breast.
The results showed that 3-D power Doppler ultrasound was highly accurate in identifying malignant breast tumors. When combined with age-based assessment and gray scale visual analysis, 3-D Doppler showed a sensitivity of 100 percent in identifying cancerous tumors and a specificity of 86 percent in excluding benign tumors.
"Using speed-weighted 3-D power Doppler ultrasound, higher flow velocities in the malignant tumor-feeding vessels may be detected, whereas vessels with slower flow velocities in surrounding benign masses may be excluded," Dr. LeCarpentier said.
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Man purse
Added Dec 6, 2007
by jeffrey
Colts Neck, New ...
I mad this little bag as a camera bag. Then I started putting my keys, wallet, and cell phone in it and now I love carrying a purse. I made it out of an shirt and suit coat, which I bought from a thrift store.
I made two of these from one sports jacket – I gave one to a friend for his birthday
Material Notes
red and white shirt, sports jacket
I winged this one
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Oct 8, 2008, 01.20 PMby polychromatin
Oh, thats too cute, I love it :D
Mar 25, 2008, 01.02 PMby aestheticwaif
I absolutely love the 'manly' sewing in your creations. Everyone here has 'perfect' sewing (and I don't mean that in a nasty way – I'm envious!), but your hand-overlocking looks awesome!!!
Jan 16, 2008, 02.09 PMby Katrin [FrauVau]
me likey!
when my new camera (okay, one for dummies… point&shoot) arrives I want to make a cozy for it, too -
Dec 7, 2007, 03.57 AMby nikkishell
LOVE these bags, i've been meaning to make a small bag for my camera but just haven't got around to it.
Dec 6, 2007, 07.11 PMby jeffrey
Here is another one of my models – Joel – He is also one of my house mates
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The game's main character is 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins, who must defend himself against school bullies at a fictional U.S. boarding school called Bullworth Academy, while dealing with characters ranging from nerds and jocks to authoritarian prefects. Weapons included baseball bats that break after several blows, stink bombs and bags of marbles that when strategically thrown will lay flat most pursuers.
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Photos: Keer Deng's new life
Photos: Keer Deng's new life
Keer Deng (center) was sold into slavery in his native Sudan when he was about 5. This picture is of him on the day he was liberated.
Fox News analyst Ellen Ratner first met Deng five years ago. He now calls her "Momma Chicken," the first two English words he learned.
Surgeries have restored Deng's ability to see some colors in his right eye. His slave master blinded him when he was 6 as punishment.
Now 19, Deng attends the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown.
One of his new experiences is learning the piano. He will play Franz Schubert's "Andante" in a duet at a May recital.
Ratner (right) said she never wanted children but now finds herself mothering Deng. She wants him to be "equipped to grow into a great man."